People: Deloitte announces director appointment; RSM adds to restructuring practice; and more

Deloitte Real Estate has appointed Nolan Tucker as director, adding to its existing senior leadership team in the planning and development business.

Tucker will be based in Deloitte Real Estate’s Leeds office and joins from WYG, where he worked for 11 years, latterly as head of the firm’s Leeds planning team.

At WYG, he advised on major residential, commercial, and energy projects across Yorkshire and the wider North East. This includes new road and rail links at Leeds Bradford Airport in addition to securing planning permission on the £40m redevelopment of two new stands at Emerald Headingley Stadium.

With over 13 years’ experience in the Yorkshire market, Tucker will work as part of Deloitte Real Estate’s planning and development business, leading on large scale residential and mixed use developments across the U.K and major projects with a focus on the Leeds city region.

Deloitte is currently retained planning advisor on Trinity Leeds Shopping Centre and has secured planning permissions on a number of key schemes, including Leeds Dock, Allied London’s mixed use development, and Vita Student, the multi-storey student accommodation building between St Alban’s Place and Belgrave Street.

Deloitte Real Estate is also advising on the planned 36-storey skyscraper for students next to Leeds Arena, which will become one of the city’s tallest buildings should the development achieve approval.

John Cooper, partner at Deloitte Real Estate, said: “The Leeds market represents an exciting opportunity to expand our successful planning and development business. Growing investor confidence means the outlook for development in the city centre remains strong, and this is reflected in the increase in construction volumes we are seeing.

“With over a decade of experience in Yorkshire, Nolan puts us in a position to better capitalise on this growing market. His track record of leadership and strategic planning support on some of the region’s key developments will be vital as we continue to expand our service arms with functions such as Cities Advisory. I am also pleased to strengthen our existing team, which has already demonstrated a track record of securing key developments across the region.”

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RSM has appointed Frazer Ulrick as a new associate director in the restructuring practice in Hull.

Ulrick joins RSM from Begbies Traynor Group where he helped to launch and grow the Hull office following more than seven years at PwC. He also started his career as a trainee at RSM in 2003.

With over 15 years’ experience working on a range of high profile appointments for local and regional businesses, he specialises in restructuring, corporate and personal insolvency and distressed advisory.

Ulrick will work alongside restructuring partner Keith Marshall and the growing Hull team to support an extensive portfolio of clients with corporate restructuring, turnaround strategies, finance options and formal insolvency.

Andy Capes, office managing partner at RSM in Hull, said: “It’s great to welcome Frazer to RSM. He brings with him a wealth of restructuring experience and his expertise will be invaluable to our clients.

“We are committed to investing in talent, and expanding our offering further is testimony to the success of our restructuring practice. Frazer joins at an exciting time as we continue to enhance our offering, take market share and grow our presence in Hull.”

Ulrick added: “‘RSM is a perfect fit for me. It’s ambition, scale and proposition combined with an impressive mix of local, regional and international clients, and a team full of qualified IPs, presented a unique regional opportunity for me; and I look forward to contributing to the future growth of the firm.”

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Croda International has appointed Roberto Cirillo and Jacqui Ferguson as non-executive directors.

Cirillo has worked in a number of international roles over the last 20 years, most recently as CEO of Optegra, the international eye healthcare company. Before that he was at Sodexo, working in a variety of roles, including in strategy and later as group COO and as country CEO of their French business.

Ferguson has almost 30 years’ experience in international roles in the technology sector. She held many senior operating roles at Hewlett Packard, including SVP and general manager of HP’s Enterprise Services Division in Europe whose business was to deliver digital and technology enabled transformations for enterprises.  She was also chief of staff at Hewlett Packard working with the chairman and CEO focused on a new company strategy and transformation.

Anita Frew, chairman of Croda International, said: “Both appointments will be of enormous benefit to the Croda Board, supporting our strategic plans to connect more dynamically to customers through the use of technology and helping customers transition to more sustainable ingredients.  Roberto brings with him a wealth of international experience in operations and strategy and Jacqui a deep knowledge of digital as well as experience in operating in emerging markets.  The appointments will also bring greater diversity to the Board in terms of gender, tenure, nationality and experience.  We are delighted to welcome them both to the Croda Board.

“As previously announced, Nigel Turner will be retiring from the board on 26 April 2018, at which time Alan Ferguson will take on the role of senior independent director.

“Steve Williams will have served on the board for nine years in 2019.  In preparation for his retirement next year, Helena Ganczakowski will take over as chairman of the remuneration committee with effect from 26 April 2018. This will give Helena a good period as chairman to prepare for the committee’s review of the company’s remuneration policy at the end of the year. Helena has been a member of the remuneration committee since 1 February 2014.

“All these changes to the board are consistent with the board’s approach to succession planning.”